Published: 12/12/11Voice from the Past: A Christmas BundleBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good Morning! Today’s Voice from the Past is Julia Ellen LeGrand Waitz of New Orleans, Louisiana. The following excerpt is from a December 1861 diary entry. Just completed another bundle...
Published: 12/8/11Voice from the Past: The Hardest Calamities to BearBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Among the calamities of war, the hardest to bear, perhaps, is the separation of families and friends. Yet all must be endured to accomplish our independence and maintain our self-government....
Published: 12/7/11THOMPSON (ed.): Tejanos in GrayBy: William L. SheaCategory: Book Reviews Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Rafael de la Garza and Manuel Yturri edited by Jerry Thompson (translated by Jose Roberto Juarez). College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011....
Published: 12/6/11Image of the Day: Hope That Thing Isn’t Loaded!By: Terry JohnstonCategory: The Front Line A Union volunteer strikes a (potentially tragic?) pose with a group of comrades. We hope those guys were friends! Image Credit: Library of Congress
Published: 12/5/11Voice from the Past – Christmasday!By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good morning! To celebrate the holidays, all of the quotables this month will reference Christmas 1861. Our first voice from the past is Raphael Semmes, who wrote the following statement...
Published: 12/1/11Voice from the Past: 1861By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line ARM’D year! year of the struggle! No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year! Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisp- ing cadenzas...
Published: 11/30/11URAL (ed.): Civil War Citizens (2010)By: James J. BroomallCategory: Book Reviews Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict edited by Susanna J. Ural. New York University Press, 2010. Paper, ISBN: 0814785700. $23.00. Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and...
Published: 11/30/11MCGINTY: The Body of John Merryman (2011)By: Michael S. GreenCategory: Book Reviews The Body of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeaus Corpus by Brian McGinty. Harvard University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0674061551. $29.95. Among the battles that Abraham Lincoln fought...
Published: 11/29/11A Second Helping of Civil War ThanksgivingBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, ate lots of turkey/tofurkey, and survived the chaos of Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping. Since, we did not post our regular...
Published: 11/29/11Celebration or Riot?By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Upon hearing the news of General George McClellan’s appointment to chief commander of the Union Army, Washingtonians embarked upon a grand torch-light procession down Seventh Street. The “compliment” proceeded from...